New Nonfiction: Second Half of 2021
This week, Alice and Kim talk about new nonfiction releases for the rest of 2021.
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Favorites of the Year So Far
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad
Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood by Cheryl Diamond
You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar
Follow the Flock: How Sheep Shaped Human Civilization by Sally Coulthard
Anticipated Nonfiction
Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina by Georgina Pazcoguin
Horse Girls: Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond by Halimah Marcus
Hard Landings: Looking Into the Future for a Child With Autism by Cammie McGovern
Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them by Siân Evans
Beautiful Country: A Memoir by Qian Julie Wang Chen
Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America by Eyal Press
We Are Not Broken by George M. Johnson
Castaway Mountain: Love and Loss Among the Wastepickers of Mumbai by Saumya Roy
Personal Effects: What Recovering the Dead Teaches Me About Caring for the Living by Robert A. Jensen
White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality by Sheryll Cashin
She Kills Me: The True Stories of History’s Deadliest Women by Jennifer Wright
Praying to the West: How Muslims Shaped the Americas by Omar Mouallem
Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller by Nadia Wassef
Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia by Greg Mitman
These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett
This Will All Be Over Soon: A Memoir by Cecily Strong
Reading Now
KIM: People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
ALICE: Square Haunting by Francesca Wade
CONCLUSION
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